The Valkyrie Five

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Quintet rumored for Cruise-Singer WW2 pic.

By Stax

Director Bryan Singer's next project will be Valkyrie, a fact-based World War II thriller starring Tom Cruise. Now comes word that a highly talented quintet of actors are being pursued to star opposite Cruise in the film.

Valkyrie recounts the true story of German officer Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, the ringleader of the failed "July Plot" that attempted to kill Adolf Hitler. The script was penned by Nathan Alexander and Oscar winner Christopher McQuarrie, who also scripted Singer's breakthrough film, The Usual Suspects.

With the exception of Wilson, all of the rumored additions to the cast have appeared in Nazi-themed or WW2 films. Branagh starred as Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich in HBO's Conspiracy. Fry appears in the forthcoming film Eichmann, about Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Wilkinson co-starred in the Holocaust TV movie The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank, while Nighy was in the telepic Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil.

Cruise's own United Artists label will release Valkyrie, which begins filming this summer. Singer is expected to segue to the Superman Returns sequel afterwards.